Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 71-80

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Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 71-80

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Media, Nick Juravich, People, Premilla Nadasen, Resources, Video, Videos, Women Have Always Worked, Women LaborJanuary 28, 2022

The following are video previews from the edX course “Women Have Always Worked” presented by Alice Kessler-Harris and Columbia University.

Class Divisions Tighten | Having It All

Caring Labor with Premilla Nadasen | Having It All

Fragmentation with Nick Juravich | Having It All

The Family / Work Crisis | Having It All

Work-Life Balance with Nick Juravich | Having It All

Acting Affirmatively | Having It All

Responsibilities of the Affluent | Having It All

Can Women Have It All in a Global Workplace? | Having It All

The Future with Nick Juravich | Having It All

An Unfinished Agenda | Having It All

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Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

DateMarch 2019Provided byAlice Kessler-HarrisMain CollectionHistory MediaAreaResourcesReferenceResearch CollectionsShare

The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eleven volumes of Gompers’ papers. The nation’s leading trade unionist in the late…

The Making of a Teachers’ Union: The National Education Association, USA, 1957-1973

Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, The Making of a Teacher's Union, When Teachers Mobilize

Not long ago, in the pages of this journal, I argued a number of propositions about the current state of historical research in the area of teacher unionism. One of those propositions was that a full explanation of the history of teacher union activity in the U.S.A. quite likely would require a three-pronged analysis involving the local, state, and national arenas.

Socialist Labor Party Hall and Historical Society

Barre, History Sites, Local and Regional Resources, Resources, Vermont

The Barre Historical Society is the historical society for the City of Barre, Vermont. It is the owner of two historic buildings, the Socialist Labor Party Hall National Historic Landmark and the Union Cooperative Store bakery building, being restored as the Rise Up Bakery.

The IWW History Project: Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1935

History Sites, IWW History Project, Organizations, Resources, University of Washington (UW), Working Class Activism Organizations

This project explores the history of the IWW in its first three decades, presenting information that has never before been available. We have compiled databases of more than 1,800 strikes, campaigns, arrests, and other incidents involving IWW members and present this information both yearbook format…

Antiwar and Radical History Project–Pacific Northwest

History Sites, Local, Resources, University of Washington (UW)

The Pacific Northwest Antiwar and Radical History Project is a multimedia web project that aims to chronicle the social impact of war and the rich history of antiwar activity in the Northwest. With video oral histories, hundreds of photographs and documents, GI underground newspapers, movement…

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945

History Sites, Library of Congress, Resources

This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later…

An Uneasy Union: Women Teachers, Organized Labor, and the Contested Ideology of Profession during the Progressive Era

Labor and Working-Class History Association, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, When Teachers Mobilize

In 1907, Grace Strachan, a school principal and leader of New York’s Interborough Association of Women Teachers (IAWT), explained the significance of the organized teachers’ campaign. “I don’t think any of us are working simply for our own interests,” she offered.

The Lowell Mill Girls

History Sites, Lowell, Lowell Mill Girls, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources

In the early 19th century the United States of America began to experience many changes. In parts of the country there was a shift from an agrarian society to an industrial society.

Meeting with Governor Justice at University High School – 2018 WV strike – Monongalia County, West Virginia, Carrie Beatty Collection

Carrie Beatty, Media, Monongalia County, Photo Gallery, Photos WTM, Photos WTM West Virginia, Resources, West Virginia, When Teachers Mobilize

A gallery of photos to explore.

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 71-80

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